Question

what topics do anthropologists bring up when they talk about race? why?

Answer 1

when anthropologist discusses racism the most important topic they discuss is about biological racism. the evolutionary beliefs on race.

That race does not determine behavior
It is not a determination of language and culture.
Racial classification is totally inadequate to describe the biological difference
The most important contribution of the modern evolutionary synthesis or “neo Darwinism” is the clear concept of biological race.
In include species fact that all humans can interbreed and produce viable offsprings. This is genetic sharing b/r different groups and hence they consider all humankind as single species.
This classification produced different grouping, where most features like skin color changes gradually and other features developed independently of each other.
For e.g skin color- due to natural selection and vitamin D.different groups have different skin color due to the evolution of human depigmentation.
When it comes to race, a human does vary biologically, it includes potential health effects and even abilities like intelligence.many defined race as “culturally constructed mark that describes real variation.” So the race is subcategorization at the subspecies level.
But most people in united states use skin color to classify race. If it was related to skin color then the definition of race would have been changed years ago, because in this sense children from the same parents will be classified as a different race.